Praveenesh, Speaking minimally (and thereby requiring less tweaks on your end), 1.5 GB would be a good value to use for RAM if available (1.0 will do too, if you make sure to tweak your configs to not use too much heap memory). Single processor should do fine for testing purposes.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 8:51 PM, praveenesh kumar <praveen...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am looking to test hadoop 0.23 or CDH4 beta on my local VM. I am looking > to execute the sample example codes in new architecture, play around with > the containers/resource managers. > Is there any pre-requisite on default memory/CPU/core settings I need to > keep in mind before setting up the VM. > > Regards, > Praveenesh -- Harsh J
